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Pests in the city [electronic resource] : flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats / Dawn Day Biehler.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Weyerhaeuser environmental booksPublication details: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:
  • 9780295804866
  • 0295804866
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 632/.6 23
LOC classification:
  • SB603.3 .B54 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
History, ecology, and the politics of pests -- The promises of modern pest control -- Flies : agents of interconnection in progressive era cities -- Bedbugs : creatures of community in modernizing cities -- German cockroaches : permeable homes in the postwar era -- Norway rats : back-alley ecology in the chemical age -- Persistence and resistance in the age of ecology -- The ecology of injustice : rats in the civil rights era -- Integrating urban homes : cockroaches and survival -- Epilogue: the persistence and resurgence of bedbugs.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

History, ecology, and the politics of pests -- The promises of modern pest control -- Flies : agents of interconnection in progressive era cities -- Bedbugs : creatures of community in modernizing cities -- German cockroaches : permeable homes in the postwar era -- Norway rats : back-alley ecology in the chemical age -- Persistence and resistance in the age of ecology -- The ecology of injustice : rats in the civil rights era -- Integrating urban homes : cockroaches and survival -- Epilogue: the persistence and resurgence of bedbugs.

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